This volume of the main Life text is perfect for shorter courses which focus on plants and animals. Life is simply the textbook for showing students how biology works, offering an engaging and coherent presentation of the fundamentals through the landmark experiments that revealed them. This 9th edition also introduces several innovations. INDICE: Studying Life - PART I: FLOWERING PLANTS: FORM AND FUNCTION - The Plant Body - Transport in Plants - Plant Nutrition - Regulation of Plant Growth - Reproduction in Flowering Plants - Plant Responses to Environmental Challenges - PART II: ANIMALS: FORM AND FUNCTION - Physiology, Homeostasis, and Temperature Regulation - Animal Hormones - Immunology: Animal Defense Systems - Animal Reproduction - Animal Development - Neurons and Nervous Systems - SensorySystems - The Mammalian Nervous System: Structure and Higher Function - Effectors: How Animals Get Things Done - Gas Exchange - Circulatory Systems - Nutrition, Digestion, and Absorption - Salt and Water Balance and Nitrogen Excretion - Animal Behavior - PART III: ECOLOGY - Ecology and the Distribution of Life- Population Ecology - Interaction Ecology - Community Ecology - Ecosystems and Global Ecology - Conservation Biology -
- ISBN: 978-1-4292-4647-7
- Editorial: W.H. Freeman
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 350
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés